Gap year programs

Selected from our approved providers

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Gap year programmes to make your gap year count!
Experience different cultures & make friends for life.
Combine a personal interest with developing new skills.

Below are just a flavour of the gap year programme our members can offer. View the organisation pages to see what else they can offer and visit their websites if you don’t chose from this selection.

Oyster Thailand marine project-divers amongst fish

Protected: Marine conservation and diving in Thailand

Private: Oyster Worldwide

The Leap Kenya. Volunteers in truck

Cultural immersion & marine restoration in Kenya

The Leap

GHV canoes on rive

Community, Conservation & Medical Volunteering in Namibia, Tanzania & Zanzibar

Private: Good Hope Volunteers

Big five game reserve volunteer

Volunteer on a ‘big 5’ safari reserve

African Conservation Experience

Turtle swimming in deep blue Greek sea

Turtle Conservation in Greece

Pod Volunteer

Oyster wildlife reserve programme - Lion

Protected: South Africa: Wildlife conservation, vet experience or game ranger qualifications

Private: Oyster Worldwide

The Leap Volunteers with tools in Colombia

Cultural immersion & off-grid gems in Colombia

The Leap

Group Outside Temple

Southeast Asia Gap Year Semester Program

Private: Pacific Discovery

Treating a Cheetah with African Conservation Experience

Start your veterinary career somewhere amazing

African Conservation Experience

Australia Adventure

Gapforce

student feeding antelope

Protect Iconic Wildlife at Moholoholo

African Conservation Experience

ACE - Feeding a Rhino

Volunteer at the oldest Rhino sanctuary in the world

African Conservation Experience

The leap volunteer with forehead touching Elephant

Community & Off-Grid Volunteering in Cambodia

The Leap

ACE - Volunteers in jeep

Tailor-made African gap year experience

African Conservation Experience

Hikers in Peruvian Mountains

South America Explorer

Gapforce

GHV child care

Volunteer experiences in Cape Town

Private: Good Hope Volunteers

Elephant closeup in grassland

Elephant care & research in South Africa

Pod Volunteer

Backlit Surfers on beach

Australia & New Zealand Gap Year Semester Program

Private: Pacific Discovery

Trekkers in Nepal

Nepal & India Adventure

Gapforce

GHV mask making

Multi-Volunteering experiences in southern Africa

Private: Good Hope Volunteers

Turtle in shallow water in Cost Rica with Pod Volunteer

Turtle and Wildlife Conservation in Costa Rica

Pod Volunteer

ACE Hyenas on road

Help the conservation of Botswana’s Okavango Delta

African Conservation Experience

Elephant care in Thailand

Pod Volunteer

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